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[Dog barking]


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Jeff Gabel: Well we train dogs to deploy on the borders at ports of entry.

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We do airports, sea ports, the dogs are detection dogs

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so they'll work either narcotics or currency and firearms.

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We train supervisors and canine officers.

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They'll come to the training center for two weeks

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and get put through a battery of classes where they'll learn to handle the dog.

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Dogs are a pack animal.

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They want to please their pack master, that being the handler,

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so the dogs are conditioned to make that handler happy.

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That dog works for that handler's verbal and physical praise along with his reward.

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That's why it's so important for the dog to think that that reward is actually coming from the odor.

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Dogs will detect just about anything you want to train them on.

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The overall dog has to pass certain checks and edits,

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and once the dog passes that we make sure that the pairing's proper.

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We take a good look at the dog for about five to seven weeks prior to the handlers ever showing up,

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get the dog all pre-trained, and then we pair the dogs accordingly to what port they're going to,

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what the workload is going to be, what they're priorities are going to be.

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It's our job as an instructor to foster that handler and get him up at the level he needs to be at.

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We have luggage belts on site, we have a vehicle pad on site,

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so we'll do the initial phases on site and then we'll take them into a real world environment.

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We'll go to warehouses, we'll go to the airport,

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we put the dog in the most realistic situation as possible.

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Run the cars, beep the horns, background noises, people moving, luggage carousels turning,

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a lot of activity so the dog, the first time he experiences that is not in the field.

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Still can't beat the dog, that's one thing, that's job security.

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For the last 20 years, we're always told

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"One day, somebody's going to build a dog nose."

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They haven't done it yet. There is no replacing the dog's nose.